ADDING to the chaos on the narrow streets of York and the congestion caused by the city council heaping development on top of development, we are now to be blessed by the "purple peril", an even longer, more impractical bus from First York.
Other than providing a photo opportunity for the chief clowns running the council (March 10) the bus does have a practical use.
Because of its extra length it will be able to carry a full description along its side. Yes, it will be called a "cycle-crushing, kerb-dislodging, pavement-pulverising, verge-churning, road-wrecking, car-scraping, mirror-smashing, pedestrian-catching, congestion-causing, diesel-polluting bus."
Residents along Heslington Road be warned, it won't be long before your cars are swept from the streets on a tide of double yellow lines so this ridiculous vehicle has free passage.
M Warters,
Yew Tree Mews,
Osbaldwick Village,
York.
Updated: 10:41 Saturday, March 19, 2005
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